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Is woke language also in other language versions on chess.com now ?

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Elwoodd
Unfortunately with the latest update chess.com decided to introduce language violation by introducing woke language. E.g. instead of the former „winner“, it is stated now „winner:In“ at least in the German version. I would like to know, if this was also introduced into other language versions of chess.com.
justbefair
Elwoodd hat geschrieben:
Unfortunately with the latest update chess.com decided to introduce language violation by introducing woke language. E.g. instead of the former „winner“, it is stated now „winner:In“ at least in the German version. I would like to know, if this was also introduced into other language versions of chess.com.

For those of you who don't understand German, I guess that he is referring to the fact that a noun can be changed from masculine to feminine in German by adding the suffix "in".

However, I am confused by the addition of "in" to "winner" since "winner" is an English word.

I am wondering where this has appeared on Chess.com. (Specifically)

Elwoodd

Of course they changed the German word „Sieger“ to Sieger:In. I used the English version („winner“) to clarify to not German speakers, where it is used. At the end of each game for example. And yes, the „In“ stands for a female winner, which is still a winner btw. The „:“ stands for everything else than male or female. So the intention of woke speak is clear, but it totally ruins the use of language. An interesting answer towards the woke wave was expressed by Ted Cruz, Senator of Texas, who answered the question for his pronouns with „[moderator removed comment - aa]“. Since wokeness is a big issue especially in Germany recently, I just wanted to know, if chess.com uses this in other languages as well.

AwesomeAtti

I do not see any issue with inclusive language. I'm no linguist, however, I understand some languages have grammatical nuances that may not exist in all languages.

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GabeMiami10

bro just copy pasted the whole chess.com guidelines